San Francisco Ballet (Indoors)
After a 70-year absence, the nation’s longest-running professional ballet company will perform at the nation’s longest-running dance festival this summer. Led by Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet will come to Jacob’s Pillow for the first time since 1956 to perform a mixed program featuring Grosse Fuge and 5 Tangos by Hans van Manen, Three Preludes by Ben Stevenson, and the pas de deux from Diamonds by George Balanchine.
In an exciting campus takeover, San Francisco Ballet will run performances on the outdoor Henry J. Leir Stage during the same week as the performances in the Ted Shawn Theatre. Audiences interested in attending both programs will be able to enjoy the full outdoor performance in time to make it over to the indoor performance.
About San Francisco Ballet
Deemed “strikingly modern [and] technically stunning” (Daily Californian), San Francisco Ballet is a world-leading ballet company and a trailblazing commissioner, collaborator, and presenter in dance. Along with American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet, the company has been described in the "triumvirate of great classical companies defining the American style on the world stage today” (The Observer).
Since its founding in 1933, the company has been an innovator in the art form and an originator of beloved cultural traditions, from staging the first American production of Swan Lake to bringing an annual holiday Nutcracker to U.S. audiences. With a deep commitment to new and contemporary works and the classical repertoire, San Francisco Ballet invests in commissions and acquisitions, presents established and emerging choreographers, uplifts creatives across disciplines, and cultivates the next generation of the world’s top dancers in its San Francisco Ballet School.
"Strikingly modern [and] technically stunning”
Daily Californian
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First appearance since 1956
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Talks
Pre-Show Talks
20 minutes before each performance
Gain insight into the performance you are about to see with a free 15-minute Pre-Show Talk. All Pre-Show Talks will be presented in Sommerspace at Blake's Barn.
Post-Show Talks
Immediately following the Friday matinee performance
Participate in a free question & answer session with the artists just after they step off stage. Ticket-holders are invited to stay immediately after the show in order to enjoy the Post-Show Talk.
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Concerto Barocco, 1956
Watch the performance clip on Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
Apollon musagète (Apollo), 1956
Watch the performance clip on Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
Pointe Spread: The Marvel of Regional Ballet
Read the interactive essay on Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
PLAN YOUR VISIT
Jacob's Pillow is located in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts in the town of Becket. The 225-acre National Historic Landmark is within easy driving distance of Boston, New York, Albany, Burlington, and Hartford.
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